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Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich, J. R. Helton brings to life an obscured underside of the American psyche in this unflinching bill of life inside the working class of Tx in the 1980s. We first meet Helton as a battling article writer succumbing to the bleak certainty of what it means to support himself and a better half. That despair is transformed into resilience as Helton insightfully narrates his wayward years, long lasting hateful employers and mind-numbing manual labor. On the way, he introduces us to the true people toiling beneath the saccharine veneer of prosperity that was the Reagan years: the ambitious and the sluggish, the potheads and racists - as well as Vietnam vets too shaken to hold a paintbrush, deadbeat fathers straining to pay child support, and the casual murderer. Uncooked and moving, Bad Careers and Low-quality Decisions captures a microcosm of tattered America that straddles that dangerous line between spoil and redemption.
